The Sun. — London, England, 1808-10-20 00:00:00

TO THIS EDITOR OR THE SIR, t e*-- . As Tit-Sute shines equally on' all, staffer a poor Iriihmans witty feels himself a part of t ie British Eas e vire, to- toiugie his little spark- among your trans cendent beams, with the hope tier theseawno have the means.of employing thcen eventually, 'may coi led every ray, from whatever quarter it may tall, and again diffuse their aggregate force to the best pert), ieS. • ,Opportunities let slip once, seldom occur again ; and the present crisis, if wisely taken advantage 01, may bring about the peace of Europe, permanently, evita . both hotioui• and securi.y. It has been:a - general opinion that so ()tillable an event cannot take place while Boonaparte reigns; Mealier such an opinion is well or ill grounded, it, like many other political tran , actions, becomes a pi eciple to be held . in mind, but by no means to be. :weed on. The re . sentment of individuals has led to great evils : our passions are bad counsellors,. but States ought not to be agitated by such feelingi e sie irritate private sensibility. The present ,Emperor.of the French is a little man, but he has extensive powers. He rules one great Nativ, he influences several ; be has a ' long head, ,and of this important moment, hands still - longer: He was supposed, to. have reached his hiahest aim ; he has stretched farther, his ambi etiou seems boundless, and his aspiring eyes do not perceive the pit beneath him,. nor the precipice he' approacties. Should he look about him, he may yet perhaps evade it; it he continues his career, he must fall. The French Nation has long been distinguish= ed for its superiority in polished manners, _and has been looked up to as a pattern for its annable qua lities by its surrounding neighbours: Individually they pique themseives • upon their uonour ; tively are they to lose ale remembrance of it? It cannot be I At this enlightened period mankind are Dearly the same, where Religion and Laws are known. Many, many thousand Frenchmen still exist, who f-elull the ties of honour, all the duties' of humanity in _their highest degrees. They -must also feel how their national character is degraded, Must know its causes, deplore the effects, and, no doubt pant with anxiety to have their former estimation and splendor restored,: From the French Nation itself .every thing is. and may be expected. The tarnish which fora while has unavoidably sullied their lustre, can,* and will, by themselves be wiped away, either by restraining their present ,Emperor within just bounds, or restoring to their hereditary • Monarch his just rights! How happy would mil- lions of them now be to repeat to LQUIS what Ennius said of Fabius,~" Utrus cunatando qui Nobis restituit rem." Thar Providence which watches over liuman affairs, aid surfers the must exiestordinary events to take place for his own inscrutable purposes, does not, boaevee, permit great crimes to ao Un punished for a continuance. " Nineveh wee of old, but she has fled away." The Noblesse of Fiance, the most renowned in Europe for martial exploits, aud every other amiable quality, degenerat ed; low people acquired, liorn weak Princes,.rauk and elevations far beyond their expedatious, and much beyond what their sentiments could sustain. Grandeur of soul was supplied by external pomp ; oppression extorted to she .v power; influence em ployed to the vilest purposes, and insolence and cruelty added toiajustice and injury. _Blch miscon dual brought aboat events that involved the national character in the t,c lid and anarchial means resorted to revenge and reform .abuses.. The eLuilition sub sided. Most evils work' their own remedy : per haps the period is pot very remote .when this great Nation, taught by past errors, may use discreetly their intrinsic powers to corre& any evils they may feel still existing. But while the ..present sya s tern is puriued by the armies ,of, e tbat Nation, "who hold supreme sway over the entire. population cif that extensive Kingdom, it behoves every other Nation to assist by every means o,ll:ea:eduction of this overwhelming Power. . Their own preserva tion demands the: exertion of all their energies to unite in support of 'each, other, :and also to Vier(' assistance to • the well disposed, among the French theMselves. On a retrospect of the stchievementi"of their- present Emperor, one must pause : he is now universally allowed to 'be, the greatest Commander existing, with Officers and troops perfealy submissive to his will, accustomed to vialory, aud inured to ware Peter 'the Great said, the Swedes will teach the Russians tosbeat them." His words . were Verified: As tali artists Lave some method peculiar to theneSelves, so they are apt to continue it, the more so when they have . found it successful. Let us, therefore, by refleaing on Buonaparte's past campaigns,' endeavour to pene trate his future ones, and oppose hint accordingly. Such a man ) and such armies, require to be well watched, and every precaution to be used. He is not so entirely to be dreaded, however, as perhaps, at a first glance, his past victories might lead one to suppose. Many causes, besides the field occurrences, led to them ; it would be now too long to enume rate many that are known ; but whatever private means he employed, his public means have, iii every _ case, been similar—Expedition and Numbers—_con &citing his forces without any one to control his designs, he concentered them to one point, a wedge; they there tore asunder whatever resisted them, whici. they generally found weakened . either by terror or internal division, which they contrived ehould always go before them, Just now he bends 'ell, his weight against Spain, or appears to do 51.1; are we therefore to comply, with his plans and meet him there? If he Was certain we weuld expose our armies these to open battle, he ought, when so much foice 'was at a distance, to alarm us at home. Our shores are liable to insult, thui..gli not. to material injury, it we ate tree to ourse4es. The Spaniards have done wonders. They have displayed most ex traordinary vigour and prudence; .participation of their well-acquired glory may edeasen their zeal. Their ardour will rather be increased than diminished by their being obliged to do all themselves at home. Their popula.lon is united, and Sufficient, not only to defend themselves, but will soon enable them to act offensively on the French frontier, if necessary. Such military' means as they cannot, immediately attain, afford'Them freely —every assistance of that kind, and money, if requisite, they deserve and should obtain, but none of our armies should fight LONDON : Printed by It ICH R n Rrts , of No. 4 , NI rt lett.court, Bow -street; a do L I I.IQ Slit,-Or X.'Cii No, itv Stfand; httrt; tLrem. , 7l ts, Orders Morning, ct min. r4i.iishel by WILLI.% ti AKMIGER SCRIP,PS, South Molt6n: street% C tosvenor—squar: ; o the Patter. I etiers f or Rise Editor, &c, (host-paid) must be add resse d. r - on Spanish ground. It may .sometimes be right to give. way a little to hazard ; tiaat wi:li such an anta goeist as we have, fintune should be trusted to as t Possihlei, prudence should be our guide.— .Holland leiseteltthe Paine yoke. Has she lost all . her fermer p r id e ? Has she no vuinerable point? There pirhaps w could serve Spain rponnaterially than by an 'immediate jo :Won with her troops. One Expedition having tailed there, is not to _make us desist Iron& another; ntneshave alteredsinee, and we may now expett friends, where then we had only enemies., The Northern Powers may require to be beaten into"a peace with us, and with each other. But let us ask, is all France i:npregnable ? France T.' - integral Francel must be made feet. Her real heroes, whO see their country led to destraiion under:the hitherto conquering standard of an insa ,tiable muShroom, elll then hate an opportunity afforded thern of proving their patriotism. Refleect ing men cannot, they, will. not, take up arms till prudence-points out to them that their efforts are likely to be attended With.: success. After an ade quate .force has once. made good their landing.in either France or Holland, if • the nativesshould not then shewia . wi s h tb th row o ff those trammels, the weight of which they have now had someexperience of, let our army retreat, .and reserve themselves for .the defence of their own lire sides, and leave the affairs of the Continent to the controul of Cabinets, ,and the fate that awaits fluetuating fatuity. Porte gal affords almost a convincing proof of the propriety of keeping our army entirety at our own disposal. There they exhibited a valour which made French. then feel Britain's sons still retain the current of that blood which flowed on Cressy's.p!ains; in the disc comfilure of their - forefathers—then indeed advan tage as well as glory was the consequence to the survivors. Whatever honour and renown our war riors have now obtained, the conquered foe have en joyed .the plunder, not trom.pewer of retaining it, .but from perhaps the ill-tnned benevolence of a hu mane Commander. The bravery of our troops - has been established beyond dispute, and disinterested ness is the general concomitant of real bravery. The praises of their country, and the prayers of a nation whom they' hose freed from tyranny, robbery, and. all sorts of oppression, will be their reward. Their former sources of commeree are again open to them : but the •donvention, by which theSe most desirable effeals are obtaltied,• is no sooner divtilged, than the General of that nation, so relieved, makes a formal protest against it—a strong argument for the propriety of keeping our troops free from the controtil of Continental Allies, except for some ge "fleral purpose. Perhaps (for we are yet unacquaint ed with our CoMmandet's reasons foe granting such favourable terms) this Convention may not have been as exactly rigid as it might have been. What 'just reason however - have the Portuguese to complain ;• would they have lost less property had they 'been left to, the mercy of their opprtssors ? Had riot that or some very similar Convention taken place, me ther battle would probably - have ensued, for plunder ers will fight fore their booty, rather than resign it without resistance—in such a struggle, more human blood would have been shed than any lucre would have been worth; so that in the most unfavottrable point of view, it amounts only to- a humane error, whereby some property, but no portion of honour, is lost. But it; after minute investigation, it shall ap pear the Convention was unworthy of a British Commander, all the conclusion to be drawn froiu it is, that human nature is frail, and that conviction should impress indelibly on the minds of the British Cabinet, that all alliances, for whatever purposes primarily formed, become, in the prosecution (4' these purposes, wore or less subservient to the sepa rate interests of all the contra Ling parties. Thus, separate views, unavoidably present themselves, dif ferent Counsels are offered, and divisions are liable to - succeed. The historic page, wherever perused, declares the faEt, and demonstrates the result. Let us then, with our tharaaeristic generosity, afford our Allies every other assistance btit troops; taw men are precions e they - have ideas peculiar to their coun try's Constitution; which has now shewn itself su perior to every other. The troops of other nations will fight as well as ours, but the impelling motive is different; their discipline too, partakes of the same digi..'rence. Let our troops, therefore, whenever necessity enforces.their junction with foreign Allies, art if possible as an independent body, under the. r reapeCtive Orlicers- immediately, let who will hav'e the generarcondua of the combined arrangements. Responsibility will then . be distind, and success more likely to ensue, where negleel can be discern ed, and merit when exhibited receive its reward. PaD D Y. GENERAL ORDER. -At a General Court Martial held . at Winchester, on the :18111 of July, 1808; and`continued, by ad journments, to the 20th of the same month, - Ensign HENRY BALL, of the Somerset Militia, was _arraign ed on the following Charge, viz. • Behaving in a scandalous and infamous manner, such as is Unbecoming the charaeter Of an Officer and a Gentleman, i►l having sold to one Kir:hard Davis, of Wilmington, in the county of Sussex, on or about the 14th of january, 1808, :several casks of contraband spirits, which said casks had been seized by the said Ensign Penry Ball, and afterwards at Cncitmere, on the said 14th of January, fBOB, taken into the custody-of Thomas Allwork, and other9flicers of the Cus: toms, at the port of Newhaven, in the County of Sussex: • - Upon which the Court came to the decision—the Court having taken into consideration the evidence brought forward in support of the charge preferred against the Prisoner, Ensign HENRY BALL t of the Sonierset Regiment of ;I , lilitia, as also what he had offered in his defence, is of opinion, that En sign H. BALL iS Not Guilty of the crime preferred against him, and it does, therefore, honourably ac quit him of the same. His Majesty having been pleased to approve and confirm the sentence of the Court, therefore His Royal -Llighness the Commander in Chief dire44s that the foregoing charge, together with the decision of the Court, shall be inserted in the Orderly, Books of every Corps. (Signed) HARRY CALVERT, AU}.-Gen. Horse Guards, Oat. 14, ISA., One day last week a hive of bees swarmed at Millield Stocks, in Sussex; a circumstance. very rare at - this season of the year. • POLICE. digf-si.itcgT'.;".A great number of shopkeeper's in and about the Metropolis, have,. for a considerable ;time past,'been defrauded of goods and money, by numerous gang of miscreants, both men and women; who have gone gliour, uttering notes of a Southamn. ion and Hampshire Bank, and Ipswich.and Strifolk;', made payable in town, but which Banks failed some months ago; their existence, however, having been; and the names 'attached to. them not being fictitious, no forgery was committed, and the specious means used by the parties ,puttitig them off generally kept them clear of being guilty of a fraud ; and from the very incautious manner in which the public have' taken sudh notes, these depredators have hitherto escaped punishment ; but oaTueSday - a woman was brought to this office on a charge of uttering several notes of the above description. A shopkeeper at Deptford appeared; and produced a 61. note of a.Sontliampu,n and Hampshire.[lank, which bad been taken of the Prisoner in payment for a shawl of the value of .4s. and which note was, made payable in town ; but on presenting it at the place directed, the answer of no effect was given. • Another shopkeeper at Deptford proved; that the Prisoner tendered him the same notes a few minutes before, in payment for sonic goods ',but he havino been before cheated. by a 21. note o f t h e same L an k , told told the prisoner it was bad, and Cautioned the pri soner against attempting to pass it. • Ali'. READ,, the Magistrate, was clearly of opi-; nion, that train this circumstance the prisoner's knowledge of the note being bad, when she uttered it, was evident ; and that therefore she had been guilty - of a fraud. The parties were accordingly bound direr to pro-. secute her at the next General Quarter Sessions for the county of Kent. Samuel 1-1' yams, a Jew, was charged with picking a man's pocket in the one-shilling gallery at Doary lane Theaire, on Monday "night; The Prisoner be ing deteeied In the faa, ran down the stairs, endea ' vouring to escire,,and put the money in a corner by We window. Tredway, a Constable, produced three guineas, two seven pieces, and some - silver, he found by the window on the stirs, a:,d which the Prosecutor described to be the sum he lost, and identified one of the seven shilling pieces. The Prisoner, was fully committed for trial. • MANSION-House—YeSterday Joiui Plate an old - offender, was charged before the Loitn MAYOR, on suspicion of stealing, a box coat. Thoma3.Sapwell. produced the coat, and stated, that on Tuesday last, about three o'clock in the afternoon, while he was . upon the look out in Bishopsgate-street, - he saw the prisoner and two otherS, the prisoner having the great coat in his hand tied up in a bundle). knowing all of them to be old offenders, he suspeded they bad got something which had. been stolen ; and upon :his asking the prisoner what he had 'got, he could not give any satisfadory aecount, and the other two ran away.—The LORD. MAvott ordered the coat to be advertised, with a description of it, and .the prisoner to be remanded. for farther examination. MARLBOROUGH = STREET,—Charge of Felony.— Howard, the per Son so well known to the Lord. • chancellor, as the assumed heir to a part of the Duke of Norfolk's estates, charged a Mr. Yates, a publi can, in Great Russell -street, with -felony, of which the following are the particulars :---Howard and his wife slept at the house of the accused 00 Monday night, but not having the means of discting the little account, a pawnbroker in the neighbourhood furnished the needful, at the loss - of the Wife's cloak ; and after tarrying asecond night at the house, theland 7 lord requested payment,and Howard observed, that he was going to the Duke of Norfolk's honse that morn ing. His Wife remained until he returned, ()tit it ap pc-!ared that he had not obtained admittance at the Duke's,and,consequeritly,could not pay the landlord he, hoWever, left his hat as a pledge of his -honesty, and shortly after the landlord was taken on 'a chargé of stealing the hat off his head. Howard talked in an incoherent way before the Magistrate, of his ne gleaed consequence, 8,-c. of Government itself taking an advantage of him, in deducting five pounds a year from his annuity of fifty; and, lastly, he observed he would- from that moment turn beggar.. The Charge made against the publiCan was altogether un true, and Mr. Howard left the Office, with a full assurance from the Magistrate, that when be was deteaed'in his promised profession of a street beggar, he should go to Bridewell. HATTON-GAankig:— Yesterday a man named Walker, who had been' robbed' of tWo 501. 'Bank Notes by a fellow lodger in the City Road, who had changed them at the Bank, appeared - against the prisoner a s econ d t i me , w h o was remanded-till this day. On quitting the Office he went along Back.. hill, where he stripped himself naked. He was with some difficulty secured, anl taken back' tot he Office, when he appeared to be in a total state of derange ment. in his clothes which he threw off were 401. in cash and notes, which were taken care of. Un der this misfortune he himself became a prisoner; as a lunatic, at Burrow's Insane. , house, at Hoxton, to ascertain the state of his malady. On Saturday se'nnight the Brig Union, ',OTHER INGTON, put into Whitby i n ahurricane of wind from the North, which, in a considerable - degree, cut off the. communication between the opposite sides .of the water at that place. Dutingthe most violent period of the storm; a young Woman of the name of Pearson, in attempting to cross the bridge, .ac eompanied by her brother, was blown over into the river : though every possible exertion was used to, reach her by boats from different quarters, the great.., est apprehensions were entertained that the poor girl would finally lose her life; for thrxgh her clothes prevented her sinking much below the surface, her, head was observed t o r e ma i n ,underwater from the: moment of her immersion to her being taken cut, an interval of about five minutes. She was. (al:6n up-by a Boat from a Vessel in the harbour in a state of total insensibility ; but by the application of pro per means she was at length restored to her senses,_ and eventually to her former state of health. On; the same day, a person belonging to Whitby, of the name of J. Audas, a joiner, tell a vielim to the seve rity of the weather, in 'attempting to walk from Egton to Whitby, a distance of eight Miles. fie was found dead the following day,. not far from the road, his head reclined-upon his wallet. CH/IMPIG v 'S. '.,. MITCWAM, Oc.i. I;7.—=This day Inquest held hotfo:e C!-11:t: ES JE,MMETT, Esc]. scorone( for' the County ti . Surrey, respe;:tina the deaths of Mary Attwood, ;:,::xi.: 14; .Eliza . , aged seven, and Sarah,. iip;ed five years, daughters de William Attwood, 0 1 i‘ii!eihatn, pritit-cutier'. an wai. : Mr. Parrot, Snrgc.taii, deposed, that orf.T.uesday he was desired. to visit ,Ws,n. Attwood, hi s w ife, as tour daughters, whb Were sup Posed to be poisoned la consequence of their havins eaten Stewed Champig" nons on the precedipg day 7 4 .. that,h.e i.jsited.thern it'll' mediately, When he found each .of them wifering Under severe yor - ,..iting. and purging, attende - 1 Wi th great. pain in the head, and violent pain in the bowels; int he administered such remedies as Or peared to'hitn best calculated to 'get rid of the W -7 , fending Matter, as he knee: of no method wherebr vegetable poison could be decomposed that bee t, tended the said children till their respediv'e death`-' which happened as follows :—Mary died at "" o'clock on F r id a y morning, .Eliza half an hour aft er, and 'Sarah a't half past four on Saturday morning; that they died violtntly . convulsed; that on openllll, the bcidy a t S a r a h, w h o seeme d to sutfor the a1°13"7 excruciating p a i n in the bowels, no appearance ('` disease existed in any part of the alimentary citol; hence he inferred, that the poison a63ed more diately upon the brain and nerves., INToa . .—These people were intoxicated within te rl , minutes after haVing eaten t h e ir mea l, an d t h e e lde'i daughter observed to her father how ch ee rful t h e y:all were. This exhilirating effed was soon by stupor, and the symptoms already described. 1 A dog which had partaken o f th e ste w di e d 3 _ Wednesday mbrning,.appa ren tly i n great agonit''' ; Mr. At two o d, hi s wile e and their daughter fizio o ' ) ' agen`l I 'years, are recovering ; the latter, however: ate Only two spoonful Itof the, stew, alledging she d '. not like its flavour. is here proper to reinath, that the stew was made in an' iron vessel. • %FrOm this statement of fa6.ls, it is sincerely, hop . eci' that persons will in future be cautious in purchasoo.° what are us. - ially termed champignons; as these fon ,s, gT are indiSerithinately gathered off the Comnions 1 the vicinity of London, and sold at the London - l ie ": kets for the pO r pa se . o f ma ki ng. ketchup, %Aid' addition of mushrooms. 1 ) 1 ;0 FORT DE LA • LlrrE.----This almost impre...'" f: fortress, whi c h, i t appears,• i s st il l in the han d s ofd numerous Fri;ncli garrison, is on the frontiers'- ei Portugal; and not far troin the strongly foriitie•i and post of Eivas. It is the chef d'w,Ture of tG great General and Engineer, Como, Da LA .(a Prussian Nobleinan, who long comma:Jed Ll' armies of Portugal), and thus deicribed by a:recleia Tourist,, a (7/03t intelligent British Officer :,—" It rs a most singular work, and Cost the Portuguese vernmeot an immense sum of alon,:,v. The whole genius of the prnje&or ha.s. been exerted to raise tb is monument to his- faMe. .IL is uomp ose d o f fO t i r ha?' • tions, with many ~other works ; the parapets o fe il contrived - for a second defence--the upper part ° them .is a tapia, the l ower i s f ormed of br i ck. es. batteries are covered, and bomb-proof; with niag zines to every tw o guns. .linou the top of th e s e o f hombrprools arelodgitlgs f u r the Offi cers in peace ; but whenever war commences, are 4 ' l ' l : e t.a• ately to bo thrown down, and their material* 8 ' rai d Mt; an upper parap e t f or wall-pieces, &e., ; or ,. of a ,breoch mad e i oone o f the bastions, the ue:; of bres are to be immediately pl ace d on an' nag ,. - the ipternol redoubt, so as to form at the sl o time a retrenchment an d fl an k for t h at wor k • • mechanism of the draw-bridge is equally well c trived. With an adequat e garr i so n , i t i s ca pable r ix resisting an imm ense f orce f or ' an incredible lenii of time." Hownt HEAD.—The Holyhead Packets after the first of,May, 1809, instead of being ohli4 e , to run up to the City of Dublin, as heretofore., 5 . dispatched from th e h ar b our constru ct e d un d e r tw u Promontory- 7 -the works are nearly com pl et ed. line in the Prologue to " The Countess of Salisboti has What's Mount Parnas s us t o the bin Howth !" a . It is a n extraordinary circum s t ance , though strip fOunded in fad, that women over t h e age o f 50, are transported -to South Wal es , a ft er a life of ,e, most : dreadful debauchery and infamy hi bear children for five or six years after that per:sider the number of f ema l e cony id s accumulate C o i l o t heir ably in the:Colonies, which is chiefly wiag o The men having no means of getting to Europe. work their passage borne in neutral ships. Soh On the loth inst. at Bath, the Lads , of At , e N rr.s 1 ttht, Esq. eldest son of Sir V ere H unt , I.;.irr. ut 4 Heir, Yesterday, at his hOuse in DevonOlire-street, the Lad; Lieutenant -C olonel Russ, of the zid Lii;tit"Dragoat;s, Daughter. brey MAR R 11. 4 On Thursday last, at li r i s li ngton, Alexander Towns",;le,jd• Esq. of' Therscoliib, Gloucestershire, to Miss Ci 4- youngest daughter .or . the late Michael Claylield, Esck„,:4ol : Lately; at liibury, Glou cesters hi re, the R ev j o hn Rctk,r of NOrth Tidworth, kVilis, to MssAblington., il to e • tew days ago, at S t. r atnes ' s Church, [ ohn ''' - 'h t ce l Esq. of Cheltenham, Bank, r, tq Miss •Vr' ells, or that I) 1.) Iff Lately, in Moles wort h - v i rj. stnset, john Garstill,;e• A feiv dayS a go , 'l a Bi shop-strect, Dubiin, aged ,` tenant S. _Frederick Eliiof, of His Majesty's 4 - 6- of 12 oot.! , Lately, at Clifton, near Bristol, Mrs. Ro of chford w" — • John Staunton Rochibrd, Esq. and thiid daughter of Sir kio race Mann, Barr. Fit s " On .Friday evening, i n P eter - street, C or k , Edwar d geraid, Esq. On . the zd inst. in Roscrea, Samdcl Maxwell, Esq• On Also. 15tii inst. at Ty Du, Monmouthshire, La Georgians, the infant daughter of Captain Thomas E l ", s e . f On Monday, at E xeter , D evonshire, Lieutenant or 'Rice, - of the Royal Navy. On Tuesday, E. Rogers, one of the Police Olficers'of Public-Olticc, 01` . STOChS YESTERDAY. BM* Stock, 232 233 India Stock, 1791 Navy s per Ct 93 y 9993 a india Bonds, 3s. 4s • P r ' r Irish 5 per Cent. Exchequer ii►lls, Ss. as. p 4 per cent. Soil I per Centl Rsd. cis . 3 per Cent. Cen. 6a .(24ms, ter 25th Nov. liank L. Ann. iY ;- • HIGH WATER. 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